FAQs

Frequently asked questions concerning the Discord Server and Bot

Where are the match rules?

You can view the rules for the University Mario Kart League here.

I've just joined the server, but I can't use any commands, nor see my own team's channels?

Use /join to register your account and join your university's team, now you can access team specific channels and use the bot commands.

If you do not currently have a team to join, use /register to register your user with the bot and have the ability to use commands.

Why can't I see my team's channel? What should I do?

Members of your team need to use the /join command to join, this will give them the correct role and allow them to view their team's channel.

I joined the wrong team! What should I do?

Please contact a member of the board and they will place you in the right team.

What should I do before a match starts?

@Cheep Cheep will send a button saying "Sign Up" to your team's announcements channel:

Here, the six team members who are playing the match should click the "Sign Up" button and enter the requested information:

• The display name they will use on their Nintendo Switch (required)
• Their Nintendo Switch friend code (optional)

A member on my team doesn't have a Discord account? What do I do about them?

Please ask them to create an account and join the Discord Server.

A Discord account is required for @Cheep Cheep and the database to function, as well as setting up matches, so please ask all members of your team to join the Discord Server.

Note
The below questions are regarding team management. Please visit the Team Guidelines page for more information about team management and creating a new team.

What does the /create-team command do? Who can join a team?

If you are a new team wanting to join, you will need to create your team for it to be added to the database. This is done using the /create-team command, which requires the following data:

• team_name: the name of your team, pick something simple and easy for this (like York)
• institution_name: the formal name for your university (like University of York)
• team_color: the colour your team receives in scoring graphics and your team's discord role. This is entered as a hex colour code (see the below question). For example: #1BAA8B

Anyone in the corresponding university can join their team. Before a match, the "Sign Up" process is conducted, where the six players who are going to play in the match can join.

Why is there a on my team's profile?

In addition to the above commands, each team should have an emblem. Please submit an emblem to a member of the board to have it added to your team's profile.

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What the hell is a "hex"? Like… the "Lost Hex" from Sonic Lost World?

No. Shut up. Stop it. Well you know how our decimal system has 10 possible numbers (0-9), this is called a base-10 numbering system. Hexadecimal (hex) is a base-16 numbering system, meaning its possible values are from 0-9 and A-F (A-F essentially representing 10-15).

Software developers and system designers widely use hexadecimal numbers because they provide a convenient representation of binary-coded values. Each hexadecimal digit represents four bits (binary digits), also known as a nibble. For example, an 8-bit byte is two hexadecimal digits and its value can be written as 00 to FF in hexadecimal. ^{[I stole this paragraph from Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia]}

A hex code is split into three parts, Let's say we have the hex colour code #1BAA8B. Ignore the # and split the string into three parts of two.

We get 1B, AA and 8B. Since these are hexadecimal values, this means that two hexadecimal numbers cover 16² values, so 0-255 as denary. If we convert each group into denary, we get 27, 170 and 139.

Each of these numbers we got represent the RGB values of a colour - red, green and blue. AKA RGB(27, 170, 139). This is another colour format also used, so essentially, a hex colour code is a compact version of RGB.